MLA week 7 homework, part 2:

Working from home (with a DSL connection), on a Tuesday morning, I didn't have trouble viewing videos. I think this is an interesting and "natural progression" from the available technology -- videocamera cell phones, social networking, etc. As I'm not a TV watcher and rarely even go to movies (yeah, I know, Dark Ages for sure), I don't naturally gravitate to YouTube, but it's an interesting option.

Podcasting is more useful for me. I listen to podcasts directly online (though I can no longer listen to internet classical radio at work since streaming audio/video is now blocked), and I'm hunting for the time to get really set up with podcast subscriptions. I think these could have great interest/usefulness for our library patrons: the straight audio lectures (such as those History of Medicine lectures in the example) would be easy. So many of our library-resource leaning sessions really need video plus audio (or at least screenshots, PPT, etc.), and that'll be good to work on.

Users (of every age) have different learning styles, and don't the educational gurus remind us to present the same information in several different ways (by sight and by sound, for instance)? This "Modern Generation" (whatever that means) is certainly often more likely to use this sort of technology first. Whether or not we use it personally, or even in our libraries, we certainly need to be very conversant with it.

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